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THE ART OF AESTHETICS
– ENHANCING NATURAL BEAUTY
Cosmetic Nurse Jaclyn Isaacs takes us inside her newly opened clinic, Art of Aesthetics, and explains why injectables and the Venus Versa go hand in hand.
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aclyn Isaacs may have opened her clinic on April 1, which is coincidentally also her birthday, but she is no April Fool. Unlike many who open their businesses solely on the belief that if they build it, ‘clients will come’, Jaclyn already had a long list of ‘followers’ eagerly awaiting her clinic opening. Jaclyn, a registered nurse who has spent the last 11 years working as a cosmetic injector in leading clinics around Sydney while raising her five children and two stepchildren with her husband Richard, decided to open her own clinic “just to give it a good go”. And although Art of Aesthetics has only been open for four months, the future looks bright as Jaclyn’s patient list has already surpassed her first-year expectations. We chatted to Jaclyn about her inspirational journey from single mother studying nursing part-time at 20 to mother-of-five running her own aesthetic clinic at 37. 50 | SPA+CLINIC
How did you begin your career in the aesthetics industry? After graduating as a registered nurse in 2006, I started working at Hills Private Hospital in Baulkham Hills and then moved to Norwest Private Hospital in Bella Vista. Although I was happy working on all the hospital wards, I always had a strong interest in Plastic Surgery and was given an amazing opportunity to work in the area in 2010 when Dr Kourosh Tavakoli (plastic surgeon specialising in breast and body surgery) offered me a job as his practice nurse at his Bella Vista and then Double Bay clinics. This really was the beginning of my aesthetic career, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity I was given. During